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Biophysical Journal 14: 75-98 (1974)
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Studies of Impedance in Cardiac Tissue using Sucrose Gap and Computer Techniques

II. Circuit Simulation of Passive Electrical Properties and Cell-to-Cell Transmission

George R. Stibitz and Frances V. McCann

ABSTRACT

The impedance measured in a strip of heart tissue from the moth Hyalophora cecropia is fitted by circuit models of several configurations. The circuits include: (a) a single R-C circuit (b) a double R-C circuit (c) terminated transmission lines, and (d) a pattern of cells with cell-to-cell transmission paths. The last of these is found to give the best fit. Calculation of the model impedances and optimization of element values are performed by a computer. The possibility that the mechanism of cell-to-cell transmission may be capacitative rather than conductive is explored using values of capacitance derived from the circuit models to calculate the effect of capacitative coupling alone on signal transmission. The calculations show that sufficient voltage can be transmitted from the excited cell to an adjacent cell to effect excitation.






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